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lished, and a reputation built up. The manufacturer 

 requires general education of a fairly advanced kind, 

 to be followed by a more or less protracted acquaint- 

 ance with the special business to which he may be 

 devoted, an acquaintance which tends to be wider and 

 of greater value as time goes on ; he frequently has to 

 wait for openings only obtainable on the decease of 

 those with whom he is associated. The lawyer and 

 doctor are only able to marry comparatively late in 

 life owing again to the prolonged and special training 

 required of them. The medical student must continue 

 his studies for at least five years after he has left his 

 school, and then almost invariably continues for a few 

 years to act as assistant or partner, content to learn 

 the practical aspects of his profession, with but a small 

 monetary return. Amongst these the most ambitious 

 aim at special knowledge of some small branch, and 

 here again a longer training is required and years of 

 patience, until their work has received sufficient re- 

 cognition to bring the rich harvest to which they 

 ultimately aspire. 



Many Unmarried Persons among Upper Classes. 



For such reasons ambitious rising men fear marriage, 

 and the possibility of large families. In many cases 

 marriage is never contracted, and the middle and upper 

 classes are full of men and women living single lives, 

 without contributing their share to the production of 



